The Amelia Scott – Kindertransport: Rehearsed Reading – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: The Amelia Scott

Website: https://theamelia.co.uk/whats-on/kindertransport-rehearsed-reading.html

Address:
Mount Pleasant Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 1AW
United Kingdom

Kindertransport by Diane Samuels: A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.

4.00pm, 27 January 2024
Free - booking required

Brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life...

Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels' seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate of one such child. Now widely considered a modern classic, Kindertransport has been read and studied the world over.
Since its premiere the play has been revived several times. Watford Palace Theatre staged it in 1996, in a production that transferred to the West End. Renowned theatre company Shared Experience also revived the play to great acclaim for a regional tour in 2007.

This rehearsed reading is performed by local young people who participated in a summer programme exploring the script with Joe Harmston and Diane Samuels.
Supported by The Association of Jewish Refugees

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